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dep5-file-paragraph-references-header-paragraph

The Files paragraph uses a reference to a license which is only defined in the Header paragraph. The copyright specification requires that the Files paragraph either contains the full license itself or references a "stand-alone" License paragraph, and not the Header paragraph.

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The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check debian/copyright/dep5.

Visibility: warning

Renamed from:
  • dep5-file-paragraph-reference-header-paragraph

The following 2 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 2 times (in any Lintian version).

There were no overrides.